Columbidae

 Statues are made for heroes and erected in town squares, and on the head of the luminary there's always a pigeon sat there.

 They make the gallant look stupid, whoever that person may be,     Seacole,    Nelson,    or   Pankhurst         and even the iconic    Bowie.

So I've carved a likeness of a pigeon and fixed it to a post by the shed. So when the flying rodent stands on it,  the Columba will look stupid instead.